Image of my own (beardless!) face, obtained in 2015 via contact imprinting technique, easily realizable in medieval times.
Pre-imprinting! (purely a modern photo as distinct from medieval -type imprint!)
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Conflicting definitions of “sindonology”
1. First, from en.wiktionary
“The study of the Shroud of Turin from a believing perspective”
2. Second, from www.dictionary.
“The scientific study of the Shroud of Turin”
Er, they can’t both be right! Indeed they could be said to be pulling in opposite directions!
So why hasn’t sindonology put its house in order by agreeing on a SINGLE DEFINITION?
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It’s still looking good for leech digesta (as the source of “blood” on the Shroud of Turin)
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, chosen … Continue reading
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Tagged anticoagulants, bloodstains, haem, hirudin, leech, leeches, Mark Evans, medicinal leech, protoporphyrin, ribs of weave, serum, Shroud of Turin, tarry, Thibault Heimburger
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Did blood-sucking leeches help to establish – at least in some eyes – the ‘authenticity’ of the Shroud of Turin?
It began as a posting on a forger’s modus operandi – my posting earlier this morning. Not your ordinary forger, I hasten to add, but probably a monk or similar. He no doubt thought he was acting from the best … Continue reading
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Tagged (red blood cells), Adler, anti-coagulants, authenticity, bloodstains, bloodsucking, coagulation, digestion, forger, globins, haemoglobin, leeches, porphyrins, serum, Shroud of Turin
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Was the blood on the Shroud applied with a monkish felt-tip pen (well, a somewhat primitive version thereof)?
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, chosen … Continue reading
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Tagged (red blood cells), Adler, bleeding, blood clots, bloodstains, clot-retraction, felt, felt pouch, felt-tip pen, filtration, Heller, leeches, serum exudation, Shroud of Turin, soap, STURP
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 